Date/Time
20th December 2022
8:00pm - 11:00pm
Location
East Side Jazz Club , Upstairs at Leytonstone Ex-Serviceman's Club
Categories
Chris Batchelor – Trumpet, Cornet
James Allsopp – Baritone Saxophone, Clarinet
Liam Noble – Piano, Fender Rhodes
Paul Clarvis – Drums
“Pigfoot, Chris Batchelor’s unfailingly entertaining quartet ….If Batchelor ran a restaurant, critics would be describing small plates, packed with punchy flavours, using only the finest ingredients. Pigfoot will remind you of music you loved, and make you love it all over again. It’s the sort of artistic mission that could give jazz a good name.” Jon Turney – London Jazz News
Pigfoot was formed by Chris Batchelor in 2014 to play classic 1920’s New Orleans themes with an open and original improvised approach to the material. This resulted in the acclaimed 2014 CD ‘21st Century Acid Trad’, recorded live at the Vortex Jazz Club in London.
Their inquisitive exploration of classic repertoire developed further afield, through a subsequent series of gigs at the Vortex entitled Pigfoot Play… where they extended in all directions, with gigs dedicated to Opera, Motown, Elvis, Bacharach and the hits of 1972, all spontaneously re-invented by the band’s wild musicality and wry humour.
Their 2019 CD ‘Pigfoot Shuffle’ represents the highlights of this extensive repertoire. Here they turn their genre-bending skills to re-workings of Led Zeppelin’s raucous “Black Dog”, the 70’s funk of Curtis Mayfield’s “Pusherman”, a South African township groove rendering of a Mozart aria from “The Marriage of Figaro” and, typically, a medley of Elvis Presley and Wagner material.